New Mexico is a very special place, in part because of its ecological fragility as somewhere livable, with a long and rich history of human civilization, at the age of a harsh desert. It doesn’t
Oh good god. A dozen dead Barn and Violet-green Swallows huddled together on the dusty desert floor of southern New Mexico. Numerous Western Bluebirds packed into a crevice in southern Color
Of all Trump’s many crimes, what he’s doing to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument by building his stupid border wall through one of the sensitive ecosystems in the world may not seem to r
For all the hiking I’ve done, I’ve ever only seen a rattlesnake once and that was when I was driving across Wyoming and one was doing its crazy sidewinder slither across the road. I did ho
Trump and his corporate thugs are making sure to push forward their agenda of poisoning wildlife and destroying ecosystems while the nation is distracted by other issues. Invoking an economic “emerg
With all the outrages going on, it’s important to remember all the other horrible things Republicans are doing to the world that don’t get on the front pages. Such as privatizing the ocean
One thing about living through a pandemic is that it’s a good time to discuss other pandemics. One of the biggest public health issues in the 19th century was cholera, with three mass epidemics:
In a world where everything is terrible, it’s worth noting the rare things that are not terrible and remember that there are real lessons in these stories. When migratory fish follow their ances